Not a problem! (seriously, though, I would edit your email address out. Click on the pencil in the bottom right hand part of your other post and it will let you edit your post)
Iâve clicked the avatar but see no message function. Is this a permissions/badge limitation. Sorry to be so seemingly inept at this, but I just donât see the message function or anything that resembles it besides the reply to post. Thanks for your help!
If you click on an avatar you should see a message box. Click on that and you can send someone a message. Frankly you will get better results by having your own thread then an old one with over 120 replies and no real conclusion.
My guess is that itâs due to you being a new member having only joined an hour ago, I believe this restriction gets lifted within a day or so, does this sound right Carolyn @cdaquila?
Mine is not showing the message box. See screen shot.
I would like to communicate directly with oamadrigal if possible as our car problems are so very similar. Hoping a solution was founded but just not posted. There may well be some credence to the theory that itâs synthetic motor oil. We didnât have a problem until the 60K serviceâwhen they changed motor oil types. Since I just read this yesterday, I havenât had a chance to change the oil and test this theory.
I am reluctant to start a new thread. I have started similar threads in the past on other sites, only to have others posters dismiss my problem as âin my headâ after the common suggestions of exaust leak, mold in the HVAC system and off-gassing suggestions didnât satisfy me.
I donât mean to sound ungrateful, but it seems inefficient to open a new thread and rehash some of these same suggestions.
Having tested each of these premises, the problem is real, but my wife and I must be more sensitive to whatever is in these odorless fumes than the average person.
I am open to and appreciative of the insights and expertise of other posters, but ours must be a pretty rare problem or sensitivity.
By the way, I have used a professional grade carbon monoxide detector in the problem car, and it consistently reads 0.0 ppm.
Thanks for your reply!
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Anti-spam measures on most forums these days donât allow new users to send private messages, because otherwise our inboxes would fill up with herbal viagra ads. 
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Do you know how to change password and username?
Cartalk provides no options. Something happened that locked me out.
Oamadrigal
Good morning, @OM1 Iâll send an email to your registered account regarding this.
Thank you, @shadowfax and while Iâm at it I should note I saw your bat signal yesterday, @pyrolord314 .
In short, for those playing at home, you get access to private messages when youâve visited at least 5 topics, read 30 posts, or spent ten minutes on the site. Thatâs according to the Trust Level primer provided by Discourse.
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Wow. Sorry to dig up an old thread but Iâve had this exact issue, with exact symptoms, and testing via the same methods in 5 different cars. So much so that Iâve changed cars quite a lot which obviously has hit my pocket hard. To PM I think @shade2 @OM1
@OM1 I think the odorless fumes has something to do with the oil just because I switch from conventional oil to synthetic oil and I currently have the same symptomsâŠ
Oil, conventional or synthetic, is not odorless. If the synthetic oil were causing your symptoms, it would have to be either leaking or spilled while it was being put in, and youâd smell that.
I will point out that the listed symptoms
are all, with the exception of dizziness, common symptoms of Covid-19. You might consider getting tested.
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Why did you switch? What year/model car? As mentioned above, pretty much the only way to smell oil fumes is from a leak or a spill. Are either of those present?
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@texases The car is a 2012 Ford Fusion and it wasnât my idea to switch⊠A friend told me that synthetic oil would be better so I went on a head and got it put in and every since then I developed symptomsâŠ
If you think the synthetic oil is causing your symptoms then switch back.
you can always get a EV.
Who knows what or why but it is possible to become sensitized to certain chemicals after long exposure so that you can no longer tolerate any exposure. If you traced it to syn oil, switch back or this might be one of the few actual situations to warrant an electric car with all those limitations.